06Jul 2026 by Post

Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

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A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Source
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16Jan 2026 by Post

Remembering Bernie Widrow, a Great Engineer and a Wise Scientist

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Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron. Source
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